Paolo Soleri in Arizona

Artist/architect Paolo Soleri studied at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West and with the famous architect himself, although Soleri's designs took on a more amorphic and almost insect-like look about them. The photos were taken by me at a retrospective of the artist at The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in 2018.

This work is a dam design for Mesa, AZ. It really resembles what you imagine a dissected ant hill might look like. Soleri founded two schools/art residences around Phoenix which are both still functioning, Cosanti  and Arcosanti.

Soleri and his students started making bronze bells as a source of income and an artistic outlet. The bells can still be purchased at Cosanti.

Architectural model for Arcosanti, Mayer, AZ

Soleri at Cosanti on Paradise Valley

After seeing the Soleri show at MOCA Scottsdale, we went over to Cosanti in Paradise Valley, AZ to buy a couple of bells for ourselves.